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Obama Bars College Republicans from Speech, Labels Them Security Threat

Whenever he talks about the economy, Obama sounds like he's trying to explain to a professor why his term paper is late.

Yesterday’s speeches in Galesburg, Ill., and Warrensburg, Mo., marked the President’s 382nd pivot to the economy. He gave another today in Jacksonville. Don’t worry if you missed the droning affairs, because you’ve heard them 381 times before. An hour-plus fusillade of shouldas, wouldas and couldas if it weren’t for those meddling Republicans.

But what is more concerning than the speeches’ gaseous impotence was the president’s troubling security priorities.

Warrensburg is home to the University of Central Missouri and several students were excited to attend. One group of ten bought tickets together and some even traveled a long way for a chance to see the president. But security personnel turned them away at the door, claiming they were a threat.

Were they carrying explosives? Or smuggling jars of poo like liberals protesting the Texas legislature? Did they belong to the UCM chapter of Youth for Al Qaeda? No, no, and I highly doubt it. Obama deemed these kids a security threat because they were... wait for it... College Republicans.

Forget global terrorists — conservatives are the real enemies of the state.

Some of the students wore Tea Party T-shirts advertising scary concepts like liberty, patriotism and the free market. Hours earlier, they attended a small, peaceful protest in a designated “free speech” area far from the speech venue. They even complied with the bizarre rule that they couldn’t be within eyesight or earshot of people waiting in line. All had put away their signs so they could respectfully listen to the President’s side of the story.

Courtney Scott, State Treasurer of the Missouri College Republicans, was upset at the ideological targeting. “It just didn’t make any sense,” she said. “A lot of us traveled several hours to watch the speech. We were very disappointed not to be able to attend.”

The President wasn’t worried about these young conservatives endangering his physical security, but rather highlighting his ideological insecurity. Just imagine if these 10 independent thinkers told a few audience members about Missouri’s 16 percent unemployment rate among college students, the failure of government-run college loans, or the $16.7 trillion in debt they owe.

We can’t have free speech interfere with Obama’s umpteenth excuse for not fixing the economy in the past five years.

Despite this egregious violation of their rights, Courtney Scott and her friends will have plenty of opportunities to see this speech again. We can be assured that President Obama will say the same things in 2014, 2015 and 2016.

Of course 2 seconds of googling would show that these nimrods weren't let in because the place was already at capacity, and no one gave a damn about them being Republicans. But that wouldn't make for very good false outrage now would it? Gabriel is a joke. And @Betty, you live in a fantasy world. Start taking some meds before you hurt someone.

This repugnant, arrogant President uses any means he can to shut down opposition, label them as security threats & try to isolate them. He has used the IRS, EPA & other government entities to do the dirty work of bringing down individuals & groups. These are Marxist tactics. When are all Americans going to wake up? Or will they be like Nazi Germany & the rise of the Reich? Silent? Disbelief? Uninformed & too busy with their own lives?

Washington, DC- Following the closed vote passage of Speaker Boehner’s continuing resolution to keep spending tax dollars without a budget, FreedomWorks Vice President of Public Policy Dean Clancy issued the following response:

Dear FreedomWorks member,
As one of our millions of FreedomWorks members nationwide, I urge you to contact your Representative and urge him or her to vote NO on the Continuing Resolution, H.R. 933.
Because the U.S. Senate has refused to pass a budget since 2009, the government has been funded through a series of Continuing Resolutions (CRs), which just continue spending at the levels approved under the last actual budget. Including “emergency” spending, this CR will still spend $1.126 trillion in 2013 even including the sequester “cuts”.

Washington, DC- Following news that Speaker Boehner is pushing for a vote on a continuing resolution (CR) that would fail to address long-term budget and spending reforms, FreedomWorks VP of Public Policy Dean Clancy announced that FreedomWorks has issued an urgent Key Vote “NO” against the closed House “rule” vote for H.R. 933, expected to take place tomorrow.

Dear FreedomWorks member,As one of our millions of FreedomWorks members nationwide, I urge you to contact your Representative and urge him or her to vote NO on a closed House Rule for the “Department of Defense, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act”, H.R. 933.

Democracy and Power 108: ObfuscationWherever politics intrudes upon economic life, political success is readily attained by saying what people like to hear rather than what is demonstrably true. Instead of safeguarding truth and honesty, the state then tends to become a major source of insincerity and mendacity. – Hans F. Sennholz

Several of us have blogged about this previously at FreedomWorks, but I simply can't get over how absurd it is that President Obama has nominated Jack Lew for Secretary of the Treasury. (Click here for a list of all Jack Lew articles on the blog.) If you thought Timothy Geithner was bad, you should check out Jack Lew's record.

In this month's State of the Union Address the president put forth a plan to make college tuition more affordable. The proposal was met with praise in most quarters on the left, but surprisingly little attention from the right.

On the weekend of February 15th-17th 2013, the up-and-coming activist group Students for Liberty hosted their 2013 International Students for Liberty Conference (ISFLC) in downtown Washington D.C. With over 1,200 attendees, the event was dedicated to students advancing liberty on college campuses nationwide. Featuring prominent liberty advocates including John Stossel and John Mackey, the weekend was filled with strategy sessions for young students looking to promote the cause of economic freedom at their respective universities.

Democracy and Power 108: ObfuscationWherever politics intrudes upon economic life, political success is readily attained by saying what people like to hear rather than what is demonstrably true. Instead of safeguarding truth and honesty, the state then tends to become a major source of insincerity and mendacity. —Hans F. Sennholz

In Tuesday's State of the Union Address, President Obama proposed raising the federally mandated minimum wage to $9 per hour, a 24% increase over the current mandate. In a subsequent conversation, my friend David Guenther of the Texas Public Policy Foundation made a good point about the effects of this if it were to come to pass: